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From left, Marc Mezvinsky, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton and former President Bill Clinton are seen in a photo from Mezvinsky and Chelsea Clinton's wedding on July 31, 2010, in Rhinebeck, N.Y.

Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezivnksy are seen on their wedding day, July 31, 2010.

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President George W. Bush poses with daughter Jenna prior to her wedding to Henry Hager at the Bush ranch in Crawford, Texas, on Saturday, May 10, 2008. It was the first wedding in a presidential family since Jenna's Aunt Dorothy (daughter of George H. W. Bush) was married in a private ceremony in 1992.

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President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush, pose for a family photo following the marriage of their daughter Jenna and Henry Hager, center, at the Bush family's Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas, Saturday, May 10, 2008. At left is the Bush's other daughter Barbara.

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Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hager pose for photographs along the lake at Prairie Chapel Ranch following their wedding ceremony Saturday, May 10, 2008, in Crawford, Texas.

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Despite top secrecy since her engagement was announced in August, this illustration was released showing some of the dresses designed by Lela Rose for Jenna Bush's House Party, consisting of 14 women. The silk crinkle chiffon cocktail length dresses are adorned with handmade chiffon rosettes.

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Twenty-two presidential children have been married while their dads were in office, including nine at the White House. Jenna Bush is not the first presidential offspring to marry off the premises, and not the first Bush to keep details private. Her Aunt Dorothy, the president's sister, and only daughter of President George H.W. Bush, married David Koch at Camp David, Md., in 1992 -- her second marriage.

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Newlyweds Luci Baines Johnson and Patrick J. Nugent kiss on the White House balcony following their Aug. 6, 1966, wedding in Washington. The couple were married at National Shrine of Immaculate Conception as 55 million people watched on TV. Her White House reception included a 300-pound, 13-tier cake decorated with swans. The union was annulled in 1979. Today, Luci is married to Canadian financier Ian Turpin.

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Photographs of brides married in the White House are on display in the executive mansion prior to the 1966 wedding of Luci Baines Johnson. President James Monroe's 17-year-old daughter Maria Hester Monroe became the first child of a sitting chief executive to marry in the White House in 1820. The wedding was anxiously anticipated by Washington society, but was criticized for being kept private.

Newlyweds Marine Corps Capt. Charles S. Robb and Lynda Bird Johnson, center, pose with their parents in the Yellow Oval Room in the White House in Washington Dec. 9, 1967. Standing from left to right are, first lady Lady Bird Johnson, President Lyndon B. Johnson, the bride-groom, James S. Robb and Mrs. Robb.

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Julie Nixon opted for a small, private wedding with a presidential grandson, Dwight David Eisenhower II, after her father was elected, but before his inauguration. The 1968 ceremony at Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church was the shortest in first family history at 15 minutes. The couple are shown at a chapel after the wedding ceremony of David's sister a month earlier in Valley Forge, Pa., Nov. 16, 1968.

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Julie's sister, Tricia, had an elaborate White House wedding. She is shown in her wedding gown in the White House, on June 12, 1971. The young bride, 19, wore a very grown up sleeveless silk organdy gown with hand-clipped lace at her televised Rose Garden wedding. The dress was by a step ahead fashion-wise and the designer -- Priscilla of Boston -- escorted the gown to Washington in its own first-class plane seat

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President Richard M. Nixon flashes an "OK" sign as he and first lady Pat Nixon leave the Rose Garden ceremony that saw their daughter Tricia marry Edward Finch Cox in Washington, D.C., Saturday, June 12, 1971. In the background are the parents of the groom, Mr. and Mrs. Howard E. Cox. This was the last wedding held at the White House.

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President Richard Nixon applauds as daughter Tricia and her husband, Edward Finch Cox, cut a giant wedding cake at the White House on June 12, 1971. The Nixon-Cox wedding was broadcast live on television and the bride made the covers of Time and Life magazines.

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President Richard Nixon kisses his daughter, Tricia, as she and her husband, Edward Cox, prepare to leave the White House after their wedding on June 12, 1971. The elaborate ceremony, and the only only White House wedding held in the Rose Garden, was a big bump to her father's popularity as he smiled wide at her side and danced to "Thank Heaven for Little Girls."